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VietnameseGriffin: ‘Fighting the exploitation of our most vulnerable remains a priority for my office, and we will continue to work to bring these perpetrators to justice’
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement after agents in his Special Investigations Division obtained an arrest warrant for Douglas Eugene Callaway, 58, of Little Rock on two felony counts of pandering or possession of visual or print medium depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child:
“Yesterday, special agents from my office obtained an arrest warrant for Callaway after a sex offender compliance check, and he was then taken into custody by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC). I am grateful to the ADC for contacting my office after they discovered that Callaway, a level 2 sex offender, owned an additional phone.
“Fighting the exploitation of our most vulnerable remains a priority for my office, and we will continue to work to bring these perpetrators to justice.”
The recovered phone was brought to the Special Investigations Division’s lab for forensics and was determined to contain Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Callaway was booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility.
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About Attorney General Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin was sworn in as the 57th Attorney General of Arkansas on January 10, 2023, having previously served as the state’s 20th Lieutenant Governor from 2015-2023. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District, where he served on the House Committee on Ways and Means, House Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Ethics and House Committee on the Judiciary while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.
Griffin is currently an officer in the Arkansas Army National Guard and holds the rank of colonel. Griffin served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than 28 years. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq.
His previous assignments include serving as the Commander of the 2d Legal Operations Detachment in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and as a Senior Legislative Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Griffin earned a master’s degree in strategic studies as a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
Griffin also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush; Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas; Senior Investigative Counsel, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; and Associate Independent Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel David M. Barrett, In re: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.
Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He attended graduate school at Oxford University. He is admitted to practice law in Arkansas (active) and Louisiana (inactive). Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife, Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.
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